Question to Mxmanic

In rec.aviation.piloting Mxsmanic wrote:
swag writes:

This is actually a maneuver that's demonstrated and practiced very
early in flight training, so I'm sure all pilots and student pilots
have experienced this. But your calculations are fairly correnct--a 2
minute turn won't cut it. It's usually demonstrated with a 60 degree
bank turn. I'm not sure of the timing, but i'd guess 30 sec or less.

Don't you have to descend to catch the wake? Downwash should be moving
downward at a few knots and IIRC the vortices do as well, so after two minutes
at, say, 12 knots, the turbulence would be almost 2500 feet below you, if you
are staying at altitude. I don't see how you could run into it.

Real people in real airplanes training to become real pilots do real
45 degree bank, constant altitude turns on a regular basis and run into
their real wake.

It is just another thing you don't understand because you have no
context.

--
Jim Pennino

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